pickwickian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Arbitrary or meaningless (of the usage of a word or phrase).
adj
Having, or relating to, Pickwickian syndrome.
adj
Of or relating to The Pickwick Papers, its storyline, or its characters (chiefly Samuel Pickwick himself).
noun
A person who has Pickwickian syndrome.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Pickwickian.
Example Sentences
- "The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand of the honourable gentleman, whether he had used the expression which had just escaped him in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense."
- "But let us defend the poor battered old language against those who use words in private Pickwickian senses of their own[…]"
- "But we are prisoners in a Pickwickian sense; if we try we can break out of our frameworks at any time."
- "This pattern of EEG and respiratory changes has been observed during both diurnal and nocturnal sleep in Pickwickian patients."
- "Calverley's test of Pickwickian scholarship has been followed by similar tests with which students of the Holmesian chronicles may put their knowledge of their hero's exploits to the proof."